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Harringay Edwardian Buy Local Campaign

Published in 1901:

Started by Hugh

3 Mar 14, 2019
Reply by Liz

Harringay House mapped (almost) exactly on modern satellite pic

Liz asked me the other day about the exact position of Harringay House. I pretty much knew it, but wasn't sure exactly. So I took the 1883…

Started by Hugh

7 Mar 10, 2019
Reply by Hugh

Guys Calculating Machines, Wood Green

Based at the Truro Works in Truro Road, Wood Green, Guy's Calculating Machines Ltd was set up by Frank Guy. The company patented their fi…

Started by Hugh

0 Nov 20, 2018

Old Crouch End School

Crouch End School shown on the 1869 Ordnance Survey Map. By 1869 its address was Park Road, but from 1500 (or perhaps earlier) until 1856,…

Started by Hugh

0 Sep 12, 2018

Portuguese High Society In Late Georgian Woodberry Down

Cintra Cottage photographed in 1865 Cintra Cottage was one of the first dwellings built on Woodberry Down.  I'm not certain exactly where…

Started by Hugh

11 Aug 14, 2018
Reply by Hugh

Was Green Lanes a Setting for the Pickwick Papers?

Writing in The Echo on January 1 1901, Victorian journalist and theatre Impresario John Holingshead wrote that the Manor House Tavern and G…

Started by Hugh

6 Jul 4, 2018
Reply by Hugh

Memories of 1860 Harringay, Stroud Green & Hornsey - recalled in 1910

London Evening News June 21 1910

Started by Hugh

5 Jun 30, 2018
Reply by Hugh

Names of Roads on the Harringay Ladder

There is a wide spread popular belief that all roads on the Harringey Ladder between Green Lanes and Wightman Road are named after famous m…

Started by John Hinshelwood

17 Jun 23, 2018
Reply by Hugh

A Lesson from our Georgian Forebears on How to Treat Penniless Refugees on Green Lanes

Stamford Mercury, 14 June 1722

Started by Hugh

0 Jun 21, 2018

Topsfield Hall & V & A Featured Local Edwardian Photographer

Topsfield hall stood on the point of land just north of where today the Clocktower stands, between Middle Lane and Broadway. Historicall…

Started by Hugh

1 Jun 20, 2018
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